07-06-2020, 06:58 PM
Quote:USSR was hella corrupt
That's the propaganda on the other side of the pond. An empty, undefined term 'corruption'.
USSR was not a country which let its citizens to die if they were not able to pay for healthcare. Or left its people homeless. Or without education. Or without a proper retirement at a proper age.
US system literally kills people if they cant pay the hospital.
When you legalize corruption like in US, you dont have corruption - all legal. Funny how that works huh...
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On the issue of Tesla devices, you may remember from the material that Confederation's main grievance with "those who you call Russians" is that they did not make the Tesla devices available to everybody as free energy. Not that they made weapons with them.
This is before the fact that Ra directly calls US and its allies 'controlled fascism', but does not call eastern bloc socialism or communism. Just like they dont call USSR 'Russians' - for there were many nationalities in USSR. Hence the precise way of saying "those who you call Russians", while at the same time taking a slight jab at the incorrect way of contemporary America's way of calling USSR. Ra was precise in their terminology.
So basically Confederation calls the Western bloc 'controlled fascism' and they gave weapons to Eastern Bloc.
One of my pet peeves is amazing at how i did not realize this important bit of information decades ago despite reading the material many times. Then again, realizing things at such a detail at that time may have been a bit dangerous or at least prohibitive.